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2 - 26 - 03 Final Version 1.01
I realized there’s some stuff im missing. Like the talking thing, and some more about the snow shoes.
2 - 25 - 03 Final Version 1.00
I played the lms_palace level. Remember if you find some thing you don’t under stand, or im missing something. Or you want to add something to it. You can e-mail. I’m glad to get e-mails. You can e-mail me at chickenrising@yahoo.com. Other then that. This is the final version. Also i made links for the stuff. So i guess its easier to navigate.
2 - 24 - 03 Version 0.99
This Strategy guide is basically done. Since all I need is that lms_palace map. I added some stuff fixed some links. This is basically the final version. So have fun.
2 - 23 - 03 Version 0.96
I have just about all the maps added in finished. Other then that I added nothing. I need one more map then im done. But when I get it done feel free to e-mail me about it. I’ll always add or change something to it if you as me.
2 - 22 - 03 Version 0.54
I raised the version a lot because I have almost all the info just the maps. Im adding some new info about the bounce and snow shoes also about armor. I also have some new things that should be added. Also a new strategy for dodging snow.
2 - 20 - 03 Version 0.34
Added a new HUD screen part to it, and I added a new thing that Should be added into the next version. That’s all for now.
2 - 17 - 03 Version 0.32
I added some more info about the pogo shoes and armor, and Tip and Tricks added G. Corner camper/water shooting. Also added FAQ's. Im going to add some maps soon.


Final Version 1.01
Index
I. Intro
A. About me
B. Contact me

II. Controls\Basic info
A. Basic Controls
B. HUD
C. WSAD v.s. Arrowkeys
D. Basic info
E. Change your model and name!
F. Power ups

III. Tips and Tricks
A. Dodging Snowballs
B. Getting good aim
C. Best power up?
D. Getting what you Throw for.
E. Flashlights/Coffee/Flying
F. Using Grapple Hook/Ladders
G. Corner camping/Water Shooting

IV. Levels
A. Add your own map
B. ctf_fuime
C. lms_palace
D. sw_alley
E. sw_eskimopie
F. sw_industrial
G. sw_playgroundII
H. sw_russia_b2
I. sw_blazwar

V. Secrets - Giltches - Easter Eggs
A. Secrets
B. Giltch’s
C. Easter Eggs

VI. Should and shouldn’t
A. What should be include in the next version
B. What they should take out of this version and shouldn’t be in the next
C. Add your own

VII. FAQ's
A. FAQ's

I. Intro A. My name is Thomas Whitlock. I live over in Wisconsin. Im making a mod called Chicken Rising. You can check that mod out over at www.chickenrising.actionrealm.com . I felt like writing a strategy guide for Snow wars cause its such a kick ass game, and I had some extra time on my hands. You can give me an e-mail at chickenrising@yahoo.com or give me a im with aim my screenname is chickenrising .

B. If you want to add to this, or maybe I have something wrong. Just e-mail me about anything that involves this strategy guide or chicken rising. I’d love to get some feedback on this.

II. Controls\Basic info
A. Well all the controls are the same as normal Half-Life. There a few differences. As default X is the button that will let you drop your Power up. Q will let you do a grapple hook, though most servers don’t allow this. Mouse2 will make a snowball, instead of do a second kinda attack.

B. Hud Screen
1 - This is your Health Points bar. If it empties all the way your dead.
2 - This is where the power-up picture will go. Like snow-shoes, shield etc.
3 - This is showing how many balls you have left
4 - This is the cross-hair.
5 - That’s how much power you have left in your flash light.
6 - This is the arm you throw with. If for some reason you didn’t know.

C. Well personally I use Arrow keys, cause im a n00b like that :-D. For this game it doesn’t really matter. W,S,A,D. Forward, Back, Left Right. Is what you would bind them. You would use space bar as jump and shift as duck. That’s the usually config for a person who uses wsad. Now if your going to use arro wkeys. Uparrow is up... etc. I use kp_ins as jump and crtl as duck. It’s better to go with W,S,A,D, but you can get very skillful with arrow keys.
D. Well Snow wars is an extremely simple game. Yet a fun one. You can roll and keep up to three snowballs. Unless you have the bag of snowballs power up. Then you can keep up to six. You can only have one power up at a time. There isn’t a number for your health, but health bar. Coffee cups increase you health greatly. Also the falling damage isn’t that great. You could fall quite a great, and not take more then 10 or 20 damage.
E. Change your model and name. I can’t say how many times I walk into a server with almost everyone being the same scientist model same color. Get your own model, and change your name from Player to a real name. You can do this all by going into Customize part in the menu.
F. There are 4 different kinda power ups.

Pogo shoes - You get higher in your jump, and you don’t lose ANY hp when you fall from any height. What you do is hold down jump, every jump you’ll get higher and higher. If you let go of it you stop. If you bounce high then stop bounce. There will be an after bounce. Like if you did a normal jump. Just a little kinda thing.

Snow shoes - Your speed increase for a second then decreases. So your running you’ll speed up. Then slow down, slower then usually. Then rinse and repeat. If you hold down forward you’ll go at full speed. Then if hold it down for more then 10 seconds. You’ll start having a wobbly head. If you keep holding it down you’ll cough. Stop then your wobble like crazy for quite a bit. When you’re all dizzy you don’t throw where your aim is, but the center of the screen. Its just an illusion that your dizzy :-D.

Ball bag - Instead of holding 3 balls. You hold 6 balls.

Shield and helmet - This will decrease the severity of the damage dealt. Now instead of it taken 1 or 2 hits to “die” it takes 2, 3, or 4 hits to “die”. Also if you hit a person in the legs it will do normal damage because there is nothing protecting that. So you can “kill” them in like 2 hits.

III. Tips and Tricks
A. Well dodging snowball is just easy to understand a little harder to do.
1 - Simple enough that just bunny hop. Bunny hop is where you jump up and down around and dodge the bullets. What I do personally is bunny hop and make snowballs. Wait for the other person to have a break in throwing snowballs, then crouch and aim or just stop and aim get off all 3 snowballs. Now this isn’t always true. If there’s a bunch of people I would suggest just running when you throw instead of stopping. This will take time and skill to get this down good, but once you do you’ll kick ass.
2 - Another way that does the trick too some what. Is bunny hop not away, but at them. This is a good way to dodge the snow. Then after your reload with snow balls. Throw snowballs at the person right there. Or you can back off, and try to get a shot off.
3 -If your going one on one with someone. Then someone comes along. Try to get away, and have the person who just came in with the person you were fighting start fighting. Run away reload. Come back fire. Then do it over and over again. Until both are dead or just you :).
4 - Use pogo shoes to get major height just bounce around and hit people, but how you hit people on pogo shoes. Is don’t aim while in air, but aim for where they’ll land.
5 - Just run behind some object!

B. There’s no one way to get good aim. To get good aim you need practice, and have a high sensitivity. Right now I’m stationed at 15 for sensitivity. Somewhere between 10 and 20 is a good place for sensitivity. Yeah I guess that’s all I can think of for now.

C. Well personally I prefer the Shield and helmet. It softens the blow of snowballs. So you can take like 3 or 4 snowball hits instead of like 1 or 2. The only bad thing about this is that the armor will slow you down just a bit. I also like the ball bag. Since I can stock up 6 snowballs. Then launch them out in a hail of rapid fire. Though the snowshoes suck unless you know how to use them. There good for getting hit, since your goes up. Then you slow down easy target if you ask me.. Also there good for jumping roofs. Also the pogo shoes you can get some real air. Also good for getting into good sniping spot. Or good for some major bunny hopping :-D.

D. It’s simple really. If you hold your throwing of a snowball. You’ll do more damage, then if you just click mouse1. So if you hold done mouse1 for a second or 2 you do more damage then if you just click it. Also what I do is stock up on my snowballs to the max. Then run around holding down the mouse1. Then bam hit someone with a snowball.

E. Flashlights can be used in a game, but I really hope that you don’t. Most servers should have the flashlight disabled, but please don’t use it. It lags people, and makes you a major ass. If I find people who don’t turn it off. Then im going to post your won-id and name. Tell people to ban you off of servers. Coffee should be used when ever you see it. Even if you have like just a little off. Use it because who would you rather use it. An enemy low on health or you so they don’t get it. Last is Flying. What you can fly in this game?! Yes you can. If someone hits you, you fly up in the air. Now depending on if your jumping or something else. You can really get some major air.

F. Using grapple hooks. Im not to fond of them. What you do is hit your grapple button (default q). Then hold it down. It will latch onto a wall then hold on if you want to stay hooked to the wall. Let go off the button and you drop. If you are on a roof, and grapple the ground. You won’t take any damage if you hold on til you get to the ground. If you do it right, it’s a good thing for getting onto a roof. Also when coming up a ladder you should have a snowball ready because 1)if someone camping at the top of the ladder you can hit them when you get up. 2)If someone is just up there sniping or just up there. You can hit them right when you get up. Easy way to take over the roof fast.

G. Corner Camping really is just have anyone chase you around a corner. Then wait for the person to come around the corner or hear them come around the corner. Pop out and get some throwing action going on. What I mean by water shooting. Is that if there is a level with water and your throw you snowball from above the water into it. It will go in like foot deep then stop. Though if you try to throw a snowball while underwater. It won’t throw. So don’t even bother.

IV. Levels
A. Want to add your map to be added to this. Ill have the download link and a mini review for it. Also if you want to write a longer review or some more secrets about the level. Just e-mail at chickenrising@yahoo.com.
A. ctf_fuime - I don’t really like this map. Since the grapple hooks are default on. One thing you should know about ctf means Capture the Flag, and you can’t get the other teams flag if they have yours. It’s not that great. Also there is no power ups which kinda sucks. This is the only ctf map so that kinda sucks. Its good for about 6 - 10 anything under 6 I don’t find very fun.

B. lms_palace - This I have to say is one of the best maps of the game! LMS - Last man standing. So when you “die” you go to a spectator screen. Until someone wins. There are 4 small maps. That are randomly chosen. There are all very small, and all very good. They all have 1 coco cup. Except for one that has one shield. All these maps are great and good for 2 - 10 people. This is hands down the best map I feel for this game.

C. sw_alley - This is a good map. Since it has all the power ups and is small. All maps in snow-wars should be small until they get a bigger fan base. There’s one of every power up, and one coco cup. Its on the second level on the smaller building. Also that steel door that blocks the small building. Just press e (+use) against it to make it open. Also on the corner of the big building on the roof. There’s a machine snow firing gun. Just walk up to it and press e(+use). In this map to jump roof to roof. Strafe against the wall. Then when you get to the edge. Jump and if you do it right you’ll land on the other roof. This map is good for 3 - 6 people. This is a good map, but not a great one.

D. sw_eskimopie - Personally I don’t like this map very much. There is two ball bags, and two shields. No pogo or bounce shoes. There is way too much coco. There are 2 coco’s in the water. People just coco camp. Go up above the water do some fighting. Go under water. Get healed and do it again. This map is way to big then what it needs to be. Also the ice or what I think is ice you I could do with out. You can’t break any windows expect for one. It’s the one on the far left. The one with three right next to each other. If you throw a snow ball against it you’ll hear a crack. This map is good for 4 - 10 people. Anything less then 4 means that it’ll be major coco camping going down. This could be a good map if it was smaller and less coco.

E. sw_industrial - This map is one of the better ones. Its big, but a good big. It has all 4 power ups and one thing of coco. The coco is in the middle. The little one door thing. There’s coco in there. The doors can be open on both sides. This map has a lot of 1 on 1 fights going down. Even with a lot of people. This map is good for 3 - 14 people. This is a good map for any number of people.

F. sw_playgroundII - This map is small map, but one of the better ones. It only has the bag of balls power up, and 1 coco. I would suggest going up on the roof any sniping. Or just going on the ground, and all around the level. There's one glitch in the level where you can't go up the ladder. You'll find it. It's not you its the map. It’s a good level. This is a good map for 2 - 10 people. This is a good map. I like how it only has one power up. Maybe they could add another bag of balls.

G. sw_russia_b2 - Good small map. There are all the power ups and 2 coco’s. Though I don’t like the fact there are 2 coco’s. The other thing I don’t like is if you are killed, and you fly off the level with some power up. Well your never going to get that power up back. Which really is a pain. Other then that this is a good map for 2 - 8. Quite a good map.

H. sw_blazwar - This map is big yet small. It really is a big map, but people tend to stay in the same areas. There are 4 shields, 4 ball bags!. (I know there are more, or i think there are. Please tell me if im wrong.), and 5 coco’s! TO MUCH COCO! There is a spawning error on the map. Where you spawn under ground, and can’t do anything. Just open up console and type kill. This is a semi-decent map I would say is good for 5 - 12 people.

V. Secrets - Giltches - Easter Eggs
A. Speed Up - If you strafe against a wall and go forward at the same time. You will go faster then if you just are going forward at normal speed.

B. Ground spawn - This only happens in sw_blazewar. Its when the you spawn underground. You can’t move, can’t do nothing. I’m guessing the spawn point was put to low. This can easy be fixed in the next version.

C. I have no easter eggs yet, but if you know of any please tell me.

VI. Should and Shouldn’t
A. 1 - In the next version I think they should have more weapons!, and make it so that when you "kill" someone when you walk over the body you pick up the snowballs they had left.
2 - Have it so you don’t auto pick up power ups if you don’t want to!
3 - Have it so if power ups go off the level. They auto re-spawn and/or if they aren’t used for so long.
4 - Some how should make it so you can build a fort some how.
5 - If someone is using pogo shoes and is hit. They should stop when they’re hit.

B. They should take out the auto-spawn thing when you first join a server. Also take out the grapple. Make the grapple and flashlights default off on servers.

C. If you want to add you own. Please e-mail me at chickenrising@yahoo.com or aim me at chickenrising

VII. FAQ’s
A. Well right now I don’t have any FAQ’s. If you have a question about SW please give me an e-mail at chickenrising@yahoo.com or aim me at chickenrising .

Q. What’s that thing I see people shooting. That latches on to stuff.
A.That’s the Grapple hook. Default Q. Look at the Grapple part of the site for more info.
Q. What’s that thing above the peoples head that looks like question mark.
A. It tells that person just typed something in.